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Patt Morrison KPCC Contributor

Patt Morrison is best known as a longtime reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where she has won numerous awards, including a share of two Pulitzer Prizes.

In addition to the Times, Patt is read, heard, and seen in many other places. She is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and has published a bestselling book on the Los Angeles River.

Morrison is frequently interviewed about Southern California on the BBC and other television and radio programs, and was a founding host of "Life & Times" on KCET-TV, for which she won six Emmys and six Golden Mike awards.

A Senior Fellow in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, Morrison was featured on the cover of "TALKERS Magazine" as one of the ‘’heavy hundred’’ of the nation’s talk radio hosts – a first for a public radio host.

Among her other honors: Pink's, the famous Los Angeles hot dog stand, has a veggie dog named after her!

It’s a beautiful day outside. But lots of Americans – maybe even you – are spending part of it in front of a big flat-panel TV. Sales of the high-definition sets are up by close to 20 percent over last year, even amid the recession.

Women in Catholic religious orders are pondering the reason for an apostolic visitation from the Vatican. That’s a check-up from a papal emissary to figure out whether a church institution is straying from approved doctrine or practice. The last visitation to the United States involved clergy sexual abuse scandals uncovered in recent years.

Just goes to show that there's a market for everything. Those state IOUs -- California calls them ''registered warrants,'' but we all know that they're really the Golden State's markers -- have reportedly been popping up for sale on sites like Craigslist.

As the state budget impasse drags on, Governor Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff is talking tough. Susan Kennedy told KPCC’s Patt Morrison that every state program and department is likely to sacrifice so California can close its $26 billion shortfall.

Every state program and department is likely to share the pain of closing California’s $26 billion budget gap, the governor’s chief of staff says. Susan Kennedy told KPCC’s Patt Morrison that the prisons won’t be immune.

Governor Schwarzenegger’s chief-of-staff is responding to critics of the cuts his administration has proposed. Susan Kennedy told KPCC’s Patt Morrison that there’s even room to trim programs for the most vulnerable Californians.